Weekly Wildflowers – Ferry Beach SP, Saco, ME
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Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold
What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
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Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky
What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
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Weekly Wildflowers – Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME
This is one of my exception cultivated garden posts, because this botanical garden does make a point to feature native plants. And some of these are actually natives once you get outside of the cultivated areas.
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Point of Honour – Madeleine E. Robins
I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
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